Dr Gemma Ashwell GP and Academic Teaching Fellow Bevan Healthcare CIC Dr Gemma Ashwell works as a GP at Bevan Healthcare in central Bradford where her main clinical interests are in the care of people experiencing homelessness and those who are in the UK as refugees or seeking asylum. Gemma is the clinical lead of…
Leslie Morphy OBE Chair Pathway Leslie Morphy is the new chair of Pathway. Her career has largely been in the not for profit sector including 8 years as CEO of Crisis UK the national charity for homeless people. Prior to that she was a Director of The Prince’s Trust for ten years, held the post…
Jon Sparkes Chief Executive Crisis Jon Sparkes has been Chief Executive of Crisis since 2014. Previously he was Chief Operating Officer of UNICEF UK and Chief Executive of SCOPE, the national disability charity. Jon also had a successful commercial career as Human Resources Director of the international technology firm The Generics Group. He is a Non-Executive Director…
Dr Josephine Ensign Professor, Department of Psychosocial and Community Health, University of Washington, USA Author, Catching Homelessness; Winner, 2017 American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year Award Josephine Ensign is professor of nursing and adjunct professor in the School of Arts and Sciences, Department of Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies at the University of Washington in Seattle.…
Gina Rowlands Managing Director Bevan Healthcare CIC Gina is the Managing Director of Bevan Healthcare CIC, a vibrant and dynamic Social Enterprise in Leeds and Bradford. Bevan is a city-wide specialist general practice with a health, social care and wellbeing model caring for homeless people, asylum seekers and refugees. Qualifying as a nurse in 1983,…
Professor Kate Pickett Professor of Epidemiology Department of Health Sciences, University of York Kate trained in biological anthropology at Cambridge, nutritional sciences at Cornell and epidemiology at UC-Berkeley. She is currently Professor of Epidemiology in the Department of Health Sciences, and the University’s Research Champion for Justice and Equality. Kate was an UK NIHR Career Scientist…
The Faculty for Homeless and Inclusion Health is an inclusive membership organisation for people involved in health care for excluded groups, such as Homeless people, gypsies and travellers, vulnerable migrants and people involved in the sex industry. Membership is open to nurses, doctors, medical professionals, social workers, public health experts, health advocates and support workers,…
Pathway is a charity working to improve healthcare for socially excluded people with complex needs. We create multi-disciplinary teams of health and social care professionals within the NHS, to support patients facing multi-morbidity – a combination of physical health problems, mental health problems and substance use issues, coupled with social exclusions such as homelessness, insecure…